Dr Deborah Harrison
BA Hons (Queen's University), MA and PhD (York University)
Professor (retired) and Adjunct Professor, Sociology, UNB
c/o Tilley Hall, Room 20

Phone/Fax (November to May): 416-516-9695
(May to November): 506-662-8768
harrison@unb.ca

Dr Harrison has been doing research on military families for the last 26 years. From 2008 to 2016, and in collaboration with thirteen other researchers, she carried out a SSHRC-funded large mixed methods project, titled The Wellbeing, Family Functioning and Social Development of Adolescents in Military Families (see http://www2.unb.ca/youthwellbeing). She is a former director of the Muriel McQueen Fergusson Centre for Family Violence Research, a former member of the Canadian Forces Advisory Council to Veterans Affairs Canada, an External Associate of the York University Centre for International and Security Studies, and a member of the Inter-University Seminar on Armed Forces and Society. She has a strong interest in institutional ethnography as a research strategy. In 2007, she received UNB's Faculty of Arts Excellence in Teaching Award.

Selected Publications

• Harrison, D. and Albanese, P. (2016). Growing up in Armyville: Canada's military families during the Afghanistan mission. Waterloo: Wilfrid Laurier University Press
• Harrison, D., Albanese, P., and Berman, R. (2014). Parent-adolescent relationships in military families affected by post-traumatic stress disorder. Canadian Social Work Review, 31(1): 81-103.
• Robson, K., Albanese, P., Harrison, D., and Sanders, C. (2013). School engagement among youth in Canadian Forces families: A comparative analysis. Alberta Journal of Educational Research, 59(3): 363-381.
• Harrison, D. and Albanese, P. (2012). The "parentification" phenomenon as applied to adolescents living through parental military deployments. Canadian Journal of Family and Youth, 4(1): 1-27.
• Kwan-Lafond, D., Harrison, D., and Albanese, P. (2011). Parental military deployments and adolescents' household work. Studies in Political Economy, 88:161-1880.
• Harrison, D., Robson, K., Albanese, P., Sanders, C., Newburn-Cook, C. (2011). The impact of shared location on the mental health of military and civilian adolescents in a community affected by frequent deployments: A research note. Armed Forces and Society, 37(3): 550-560.
• Harrison, D. and Laliberté, L. (2008). The competing claims of operational effectiveness and human rights in the Canadian context. Armed Forces and Society, 34(2): 208-29.
• Harrison, D. (2006). The role of military culture in military organizations responses to woman abuse in military families. The Sociological Review, 54(3): 546-74.
• Harrison, D. and Bourassa, C. (2005). L'isolement vé cu par les femmes victimes de violence conjugale de la part de leur conjoint militaire. La Revue Canadienne de Service Social, 22 ee(1): 53-70.
• Harrison, D. (2004, with E. Sandra Byers). Building collaborative action-oriented research teams. In Mary Lou Stirling et al. (Eds), Understanding abuse: Partnering for change. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, pp. 21-52.
• Harrison, D. (2004). The Canadian forces response to woman abuse in military families. In Mary Lou Stirling et al. (Eds.), Understanding abuse: Partnering for change. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, pp. 155-94.
• Harrison, D. (2003). Violence in the military community. In Paul R. Higate (Ed), Military masculinities: Identity and the state. Westport, CT: Praeger, Greenwood Publishing Group pp. 71-90.
• Harrison, D. (2002, with seven collaborators). The first casualty: Violence against women in Canadian military communities. Toronto: James Lorimer & Company.
• Harrison, D. and Laliberté, L. (1994). No life like it: Military wives in Canada. Toronto: James Lorimer & Company.
• Harrison, D. (1982). The limits of liberalism: The making of Canadian sociology. Montréal: Black Rose Books.